black
adjective
being a color that lacks hue and brightness and absorbs light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
unblacked
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a word derived from
black.
Example Sentences
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He stamped one foot, and picked up his other laced boot, heavy, thick-soled, unblacked, mended many times.
From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
The bear-skin housing of my saddle pleased them very much, and my boots of unblacked leather, which they compare to the deer-hide moccasins which they wear for winter hunting.
From Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
At one first-class Irish establishment—admirably equipped with buildings, playground, and all other appliances—boots used to go unblacked from one end of the month to the other.
From Irish Books and Irish People by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
The trousers were checkered, of ash-gray color, and his sapogi had short, unblacked military bootlegs.
From Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
But my dear Mr. Martin is my dear Mr. Martin still, unblacked, unchanged, as when I knew him in the sun long ago, when suns were content to make funny places, instead of drawing pictures!
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
